The amount of air pollutants in China’s bustling commercial center of Shanghai were reportedly ten times higher on Monday than the level considered safe by the World Health Organization, leading officials to issue a warning telling the elderly and children to say indoors.

According to a report in Bloomberg, the official warning comes one day after 35,000 athletes participated in the annual Shanghai International Marathon. Some runners reportedly wore face-masks during the race, while others complained of lung pain after finishing the grueling event.

While China has been commended for decades of explosive growth that has pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty, experts warn that the government must address ongoing environmental damage caused by the country’s economic revival.

one day we are learn sth. about EPA in university, My professor shared some self-experience, he said in 1960(or70) los angeles was full of smog because of pollution , the government told people stay at home and try not to breath

Do you agree that If Saddam Hussein had flooded the Kurdish villages with non-Kurds and ordered the Kurds to "assimilate" and "celebrate this diversity" and thereby demographically wiping out the Kurds as an ethnic group he WOULD have been GUILTY of committing an intentional act of genocide?

Isn`t that what you anti-Whites are doing to White people by flooding our communities with non-Whites and telling us we have to "assimilate" and "celebrate diversity"?

First, there are the hydrocarbons going to boost greenhouse gases. Those contribute to global warming.

Seond, there are the aerosol particulate pollutants that can rise high into the atmosphere. Those contribute to global dimming and reduce global warming while they are blocking solar energy from reaching the surface of the Earth.

Of course, the immediate effect is on the health of the population there. The government does not have the interest in the health of the general population that the US federal government has. Many may not recall the bad smog problems in California that pushed the emissions control regulations into effect.

Shanghai has nothing on Bakersfield, California. The pollution from this oil town makes the eyes water. It rises up the hill through Tehachapi and into the next valley to meet with the intense Los Angeles smog. The thousands of windmills that have been plunked all over the ridges appear flacid and useless as a solution to offset the gross pollution from either direction. The Americans are sure suckers for the words "renewable energy."

If Chinese government continues to allow high number of personal vehicles sitting in the daily traffic jams within high density urban areas, air pollution will only get much worse.

Some Chinese don't even benefit from owning a car since it takes much longer to get from point A to B through traffic jams and parking being superbly expensive. China has great public transportation within major cities. But people just have to show off.

Environmental damage to its own citizens and citizens of other countries is the last thing on the mind of the Totalitarian communists government of China...right up there no labor laws or regulations, taking organs from prisoners, manipulation of currency and other atrocities and human rights violations. It is reported that 25% of the pollutant particles falling on California is coming from our neighbor to the east. To think that nitwits are fighting, pushing, shoving, stabbing, and tasering each other to get their grubby hands on products at Walmart that are made in hellhole China while we put each other out of work is a sad sad statement as Americans.

Yeah, I say good for America!! Regulate every damn thing, and let China do whatever the hell it wants. The US will tank into the toilet, but well, who cares, at least we're green, right? Some of you people are complete idiots.

I am the president of GreenTV and welcome progressive thinkers in China to join us. You can come to my green estate on the waterfront of the Chesapeake Bay to discuss strategies. I feel especially bad for the seniors, children and handicapped. Let us work together on multiple solutions.

@SilenceIsConsent Germany produces more electrical power from solar energy than the US and it has far smaller area. Other sources of energy production are, over time, less expensive than petroleum energy sources while cost of energy production from hydrocarbon sources is non-decreasing trend.

@SilenceIsConsent cry me a river.. I guess you dont know about how china has no safety laws, pollutions laws. it may be polluted over at Bakersfield but at least they are struggling to work around the loops holes. They are still better off than china.

@highdef2012 Some people think shaving 5 years from people's life spans is a small price to pay for turning your country into a vast toxic waste dump with 8% GDP growth a year. Others thankfully disagree.

@highdef2012 As someone who grew up in the 1960's and 1970's, it seems to me that you are a young ignoramus that has absolutely no idea why your air, water and soil today are not causing emphysema, cancer or some other life-threatening malady. What is truly sad, however, is that so many are willing to proudly trumpet their complete ignorance while calling others idiots. I'll even wager a bet that instead of doing any kind of research or making any consideration about why virtually every industrialized country has eventually implemented regulations on businesses (US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan...), you'll simply spout more Libertarian nonsense and believe you know it all...

@yetanotherjones hey, Einstein. Think again. Cleaning up America and letting CHina pollute whatever the hell it wants WON"T clean up the air for anybody, moron. Do you even think before you t ype?? Good God, epic epic fail!

@pullUpYourDamnPants Shanghai does not have major manufacturing facilities within the city. I believe most of the smog came from car emissions. The number of personal vehicles has exploded. All the cars sit in traffic all day and all the days as people think taking public transportation is too embarassing.

@dboy4ever I agreed with you on this. I believe America wants us to become a managing country instead of manufacturing (not all of them). The cost of cleaning the environment is more than the cost of being taxed and feed a few heads. However, we have to take the backfire from the people that are abusing the system. I can go on, but I guess you get the drift.

@dboy4ever@highdef2012 I'm guessing you're happy with every american serving coffees at some chain store, or puffing on hookas in the back room of some cigar shop? Don't plan on earning a living anytime soon, eh? YAY Obama, he'll save me!

@the.real.joe.mahma@nrafools@DonQuixotic Amen... and who needs the EPA and FDA , when we can all be happy in our crappy jobs trying to work the American dream. And who needs FEMA, because if anything goes wrong we can just call on wal-mart to save the day .

@highdef2012 Did you even read the article? The air is so polluted over there it is becoming unbreathable. At times one cannot see beyond 30' because the smog is so bad. I know this because I have been there. All of this is due to no regulation on toxic emmisions from manufacturing processes.

@highdef2012 Yes. If China fails to control the costs of production of goods because it increases use of hydrocarbon energy, then it will price itself out of the commercial market over time. Walmart will begin seeking goods from competitors to China that are developing in other countries.

@highdef2012 Uh... YES. They are already doing that. Why do you think China outspent the US in renewables and green technology? Sometimes these things can go hand-in-hand. Google "waste for food", it'll open your mind. I promise.

Caleb... do you really, REALLY believe China will put limits and control on it's own economy, severe limits that are needed, in order to reduce air pollution enough to make any difference? While America works hard at controlling things, unilaterally, China has become the leader in exports. Go to Walmart, check them out first hand. Then get back to me and tell me we'll catch up to them with even stricter controls.